Art Quote by Parker Tyler

“The genius of Cornell is that he sees and enables us to see with the eyes of childhood, before our vision got clouded by…

— John Ashbery

“Components of his experiences seemed to break down, sorting into hard facts, like a series of crystals, as if they could be arranged, made…

— Brent Hayward

“The writing seemed like the books that held it; crumbly and antique and bearing the stink of centuries. Still, it was compelling. His voice…

— Lauren Groff

“As I repeatedly went forth with him and began to understand the ignorance and contradictions and language difficulties with which he contended, and the…

— Joseph O'Neill

The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Printer like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stripped of its lettering and gilding…

— Benjamin Franklin

“His prime resource is the leaky vessel of is own memory. At times he views it thus, quite literally- as some old pail with…

— Penelope Lively

“Imperial is like Robert Caro’s The Power Broker with the attitude of Mike Davis’s City of Quartz, if Robert Caro had been raised in…

— Sam Anderson - NY Magazine

“And this puts me in mind of that rich gentleman of Rome, who had been solicitous, with great expense, to procure men that were…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Strauss’s, for instance, which begins in the heavens. The artist doesn’t ascend to glory, he appears in it, he already has it and the…

— James Salter

“The works which this man leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent; and yet…

— Georges Cuvier

For Christmas, 1939, a girl friend gave me a book token which I used to buy Linus Pauling's recently published Nature of the Chemical…

— Max Perutz